{"id":308418,"date":"2025-12-01T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=308418"},"modified":"2025-11-26T08:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:30:10","slug":"revolutionary-holism-the-only-way-to-a-viable-human-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/revolutionary-holism-the-only-way-to-a-viable-human-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary Holism: The Only Way to a Viable Human Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

23 Nov 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0It is time our politics matured to the level of what planetary thinker Ken Wilber calls \u201cIntegral Global Politics.\u201d <\/em>That means that most of the world\u2019s population has yet to grow up, including those at the head of nation-states.\u00a0 Mature human beings understand that every person,<\/em> no matter their religion, gender, nationality, culture, or other differences, has the right to equal treatment under the law, the right to peace, and the right to a healthy environment.<\/p>\n

They understand our common humanity, and our common human situation. They understand that government arises from the people and its sole job is to interface individual freedom with the common good. Government arises not from this or that territorial segment of the people but from all people because we are all human.<\/em> Emery Reves made this very clear in The Anatomy of Peace <\/em>(1945). <\/em>The only truly legitimate government is one for the whole of humanity.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the world is organized into nearly two hundred sovereign (mostly militarized) fragments.\u00a0 To say that these many governments legitimately arise from their respective peoples is to commit a gigantic error.\u00a0 Government arises from the people.\u00a0 The people of Earth are sovereign and the only legitimate source of government. Authority is properly delegated to each territorial government only by the sovereign people of Earth.<\/p>\n

In the Constitution for the Federation of Earth,<\/em> the people of Earth are in possession of a revolutionary document\u2014because the Earth Constitution declares their collective sovereignty.\u00a0 Whatever authority nations have derives from the people of Earth represented by the World Parliament under the Earth Constitution.\u00a0 We the people of Earth, with this document in hand, must take charge of our planet thus protecting the environment, disarming the nations, and ending global poverty.<\/p>\n

The age of the nation-state is at its end. The age of humanity has begun. In the name of the Constitution, we the people of Earth have the right and the duty to ratify this constitution and thereby seize legitimate governmental power on behalf of the whole of humanity. There is no way on Earth that the militarized sovereign nation-states can redeem our planetary biosphere, nor end war, nor protect human rights everywhere, nor end global poverty. The very fact that they are fragments denying the whole is the source of their failure. Only the sovereign people of Earth under their revolutionary Earth Constitution can do these things.<\/p>\n

The present world system, believe it or not, originated at the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 after the Thirty Years War in Europe. Yes, you read that right: 1648, when they were riding horses and fighting mostly with swords.\u00a0 Today, it is the same system, the product of an earlier historical era, only now the system has intercontinental ballistic missiles with independently targetable nuclear warheads. How absurd is that?<\/p>\n

Do you want to save humanity and our planet?\u00a0 Then sign the Earth Constitution and join the revolution. Welcome to Integral Global Politics.\u00a0 To think in terms of sovereign nation-states is just childish. The world becomes paralyzed by its mass of territorial fragments, each egoistically appealing to the \u201cpatriotism\u201d of its prisoners (for the population of each sovereign nation is prisoner to that government and that territory).\u00a0 If you don\u2019t believe me about being a prisoner, just try traveling somewhere. Each nation has a set of visa rules and carefully regulates who can get in (or out).\u00a0 Travel (except for the super-rich) is a nightmare under today\u2019s broken world system.<\/p>\n

So is economics, with tariffs, sanctions, exploitation, and greed for natural resources crisscrossing the planet in every which direction, causing confusion and economic difficulties for everyone (except the super-rich). Why should there be super-rich at all?\u00a0\u00a0 Why should there be unlimited accumulation of private wealth?\u00a0 Who thought up and defended this absurdity?\u00a0 Why\u2014the super-rich, of course, going all the way back to the 17th<\/sup> century. \u00a0This is clearly not the will of the people of Earth but is something the rulers in fragmented sovereign nations want to keep in place.\u00a0 The super-rich love fragmentation because it empowers their exploitation and political control.<\/p>\n

If we follow the Earth Constitution that places integral political power in the hands of the people of Earth, then we are bound to get reasonable economic equality <\/em>(and hence also authentic democracy). \u00a0The Provisional World Parliament at its 7th<\/sup> session in 2003 already addressed this issue and gave us radical reasonable equality.\u00a0\u00a0 But this equality can become a reality worldwide only when the Constitution is ratified and comes into force.\u00a0 Reasonable economic equity is also essential to democracy.\u00a0 As long as there are super-rich, there can be no genuine democracy.<\/p>\n

Human freedom is not the \u201cright\u201d to act on every impulse regardless of consequences. Human freedom is created by law, and only by law, because human freedom defines the relationship I have with all others, who also need to be free.\u00a0 As soon as \u201cfreedom\u201d is linked to a sovereign nation-state it becomes undercut by the anarchy of competing states and by the supremacy of the super-rich.\u00a0 Therefore, the only genuine freedom (that human beings have been struggling for since ancient times) is created by the Earth Constitution, ensuring freedom for all within the context of our planetary common good.<\/p>\n

We tend to think of political, social, and economic problems as \u201cnational problems,\u201d but they are not and cannot be so.\u00a0 The very existence of a world of 200 or so prison camps in which each government has control over its \u201csovereign\u201d territory creates immense \u201cinternal\u201d problems for each state. The only way to solve such problems is through the Earth Constitution that puts everyone on the same page in the service of the common good of the whole. This is where Integral Global Politics comes to maturity. It begins with you and I advocating the supernational constellation of Earth Federation and it fulfills itself in authentic global democracy, disarmed, with poverty eliminated, and a healthy environment.<\/p>\n

In the 18th<\/sup> century, Immanuel Kant had made it very clear that the system of sovereign nation-states is inherently a war system<\/em>. It is so even when no fighting is taking place. Reves summarized this beautifully: \u201cWar takes place whenever and wherever non-integrated social units of equal sovereignty come into contact.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>If a country amasses troops on its border, or enters into \u201cwar games\u201d in a certain region, or increases it military spending, other countries immediately become concerned and react.\u00a0 The world is like a tinderbox, waiting to explode.\u00a0 As the speed of delivery systems increases to astronomical proportions, the stability and security of all peoples are reduced proportionately.\u00a0 The war-system of the world now puts us daily in danger of nuclear holocaust and immanent destruction.<\/p>\n

\u201cHolism\u201d does not mean the obliteration of differences. It means embrace of the diversity of humanity simultaneously with its unity. The two are inseparable.\u00a0 The Earth Constitution grants the people of Earth the authority to advance the principles of democratic world law even prior to its ratification.\u00a0 Under the authority of the Constitution, we people of Earth promote uniting our planet under its holistic authority through participation in the Provisional World Parliament, thus ending both the war system and the economic exploitation system with its climate destruction consequences.<\/p>\n

The sovereign authority of the people and nations of Earth is invested in the tricameral World Parliament: the House of Peoples, House of Nations, and House of Counselors.\u00a0 The Parliament passes world laws according to the democratic principles embodied in the Constitution and the Bills of Rights in Articles 12 and 13. There is an effective World Judiciary, an effective World Enforcement System, an effective World Executive, and an effective World Ombudsmus that serves as a watchdog for the people and a protector of human rights.\u00a0 With these checks, balances, and defined responsibilities in place, the people of Earth can rapidly disarm the world, restore the environment, and end extreme poverty.\u00a0 There is no other way to achieve these goals.<\/p>\n

People born anywhere in today\u2019s world think of themselves first as Chinese, Russian, American, Indian, or British, etc.\u00a0 They have it exactly backward and their immature egoism is what is getting us all killed.\u00a0 Every person born is first and foremost human.\u00a0 If we want to honor or preserve the richness of China, Russia, America, India, or Britain, then we need to start with the whole, which alone can elucidate and preserve the parts.\u00a0 Parts without a whole, are always simply chaos.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, contemporary science has shown that there is no such thing as parts without the whole of the entire Universe.<\/p>\n

The ancient Maha Upanishad declared that \u201cthe world is one family.\u201d\u00a0 But a world fragmented into absolute sovereignties cannot possibly actualize this truth.\u00a0 A fragmented world requires that my family end at the border, and beyond that, my military has a right to bomb, kill, or destroy anyone that my government designates as a \u201cmortal enemy.\u201d\u00a0 Like Arjuna in the Mahabharata,<\/em> I am required to kill members I recognize as my family.\u00a0 Why?\u2014because my \u201csovereign government\u201d has ordered me to do so.\u00a0 To refuse to do so is considered \u201ctreason,\u201d sedition, with severe punishments.<\/p>\n

Every one of these nations demands that my loyalty to my human family be placed second behind loyalty to some fragment that falsely claims it is \u201csovereign\u201d and independent in a lawless world (international law, so-called, is no real law).\u00a0 The UN is predicated on this lawless world and that is why in 80 years it has failed on all these fronts.\u00a0 The UN has a profound \u201cDeclaration of Human Rights\u201d (of 1948) but it also has an antiquated organizational structure (going back to 1648).\u00a0 The Declaration of Rights manifests mature, worldcentric, integral politics. The organizational structure manifests a nightmare of war, genocide, poverty, climate destruction, and injustice.<\/p>\n

The Earth Constitution brings forward the mature Declaration of Human Rights\u201d into a mature, 21st<\/sup> century organizational structure.\u00a0 It is time we grew up.\u00a0 The parts cannot function properly without the whole.\u00a0 As in the human body, the liver, spleen, stomach, heart and lungs, cannot function without the integrated whole. Our bodies manifest a supreme unity in diversity, as does our global ecosystem. Our planetary organizational structures manifest the disintegration and death of all wholeness.\u00a0 Now is the time to choose, to make a \u201cDeclaration of Independence\u201d from this chaos and ascend to the whole.\u00a0 One Humanity, One Biosphere, One holistic Cosmos, One Earth Constitution.\u00a0 Let\u2019s do it.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Dr. Glen T. Martin:
\n– Member, <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a>
\n– Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
\n– Founder\/Chairperson Emeritus, Program in Peace Studies, Radford University
\n– President, World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA);
\n– President, Earth Constitution Institute (ECI)
\n– Author of twelve books and hundreds of articles concerning global issues, human spirituality, and democratic world government; a recipient of many peace awards.
\n<\/em>www.earthconstitution.world<\/em><\/a> \u2013 Email: <\/em>gmartin@radford.edu<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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